Spontaneous buckling in flexible organic lightemitting devices for enhanced light extraction

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 105, 2011, Pages A1117-A1125

  Park, Byoungchoo ^a   Goo Jeon, Hong ^a  

^a Kwangwoon University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM COATINGS; BUCKLING; CONDUCTING POLYMERS; ETHERS; IRIDIUM; IRIDIUM COMPOUNDS; LIGHT EMISSION; STYRENE; NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS; ORGANIC CONDUCTORS;

ALUMINUM CATHODE; COMPOSITE LAYER; ELECTRO-LUMINESCENT; EXTERNAL QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; FLEXIBLE ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DEVICES; IRIDIUM COMPLEX; LIGHT EXTRACTION; MOLECULAR COMPOSITE; PATTERNED STRUCTURE; PEAK EFFICIENCY; POLY(VINYLCARBAZOLE); POLY-3 ,4-ETHYLENEDIOXYTHIOPHENE; POLYETHERSULFONES; THERMAL DEPOSITION; POLY(3 ,4-ETHYLENEDIOXYTHIOPHENE);

NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS; BUCKLING;

EID: 80052701100     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.0A1117     Document Type: Article

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